Cycle 5 Session 23 - Habits vs Addictions

Self-Reflection Questions

WHO knows if your behavior is a habit or an addiction? 

WHAT is your go-to drug/action when your emotions need to be stabilized?

WHERE are you likely to be when you might engage in some type of drug use/bad behavior?

WHY is it important to take legal drugs only as prescribed?

WHEN should you seek professional help with an uncontrollable habit or addiction?

HOW can learning/talking about your addiction help you with your addiction?

Habits – The subconscious choices you make when you do something. A habit can be given up by making changes in your routine. Learning more about the habit. A psychological habit that is hard to give up and can feel like an addiction.

Addiction –  A conscious choice you make to do something repeatedly that may be currently harming you or may harm you one day. You don't want to stop because it makes you feel good for a while.  To have an addiction is to have a dependency, dependence, craving, or enslavement for something.  Performing this action causes the brain to release "a feel-good chemical." Some addictions require professional help to break, but all addictions require a change in the way you think. 

Example

"After I eat lunch with Suzy we go outside to smoke a cigarette together."

Habit behavior – When you eat lunch with Suzy (I bring my cigarette with me)

Addiction behavior -  smoking a cigarette

Point: There is nothing wrong with eating lunch with Suzy, but if it triggers you to smoke a cigarette, then you probably should stop eating lunch with Suzy. This will be the first step in breaking your habit, which contributes to the addiction. 

Self-Reflection Points

• Change to people who support this unwanted behavior. 

• Replace the unwanted behavior with something positive.

• Spend time in places that give you purpose.

• Converse with uplifting, goal-oriented people. 

• Watch educational and inspiring things.

Faith doesn't make things easy... it makes things possible. AMEN 

"For with GOD nothing shall be impossible" Luke 1:37 KJV Holy Bible